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Originally Posted by The Cobra
My point is, fans are always looking for someone to blame, so explanation for the loss. But teams lose all the time, there doesn't necessarily need to always be some conspiracy theory to explain a loss.
And randomness plays a huge part in a team's fortunes. It's why winning is so hard, even for the teams that are thought to be the best. Ignoring the huge part that randomness plays in determining the outcome of sporting events is simply ignoring reality.
Fact: the team that wins the Stanley Cup gets breaks along the way. I don't care how good you are.
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Not only do I not dispute that, but I probably make that point more than anyone else on this board.
What i took contention with was that you were using this fact to dismiss peoples' analyses of events that did in fact take place. Yes, there is randomness, but there are still plenty of things to discuss and analyze.